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24.03.2008 06:37:46

virtual keyboard toggle

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I can't seem to make the show/hide (or toggle) virtual keyboard action work. Assigning it to a button allows me to show the keyboard, but the next press of that button acts as a key press on the keyboard. The keyboard refuses to hide.

Setting separate buttons for show and hide works, however.

Searching, I found another post from 7 months ago with the same problem, stating it was fixed in a "private build". Is it fixed in a new release?

Thanks,
Steve

These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:

Configuration

How do I add a new action to a Behaviour - f.ex. an emulated key press or AppleScript? (FAQ015E0153)
1) Open the Remote Buddy Preferences via the pulldown-menu and choose "Mapping".
2) Choose the mapping you want to modify.
3) Select "Custom actions" for the button you want to map to an action of your own.
4) Create the action you need using the appearing editor.

Hardware - Apple® Remote

After uninstalling/quitting Remote Buddy, my Mac® no longer reacts to the Apple® Remote. (FAQ015E0241)
To enable you to use all capabilities of the IR Receiver of your Mac®, Remote Buddy is using its own driver. In contrast, all other applications with integrated Apple® Remote support usually use the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

As long as you're running Remote Buddy, Remote Buddy and its driver are responsible for turning the received button presses into actions. As soon as you quit Remote Buddy, this task is again handled by the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

If other applications don't use the interface to the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem correctly, this can lead to the effect that nothing happens when you press a button on your Apple® Remote. For as long as you're running Remote Buddy, issues like this are covered by Remote Buddy and it's driver and are therefore not visible to you. However, as soon as you quit Remote Buddy, the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem is back in control and any issues caused in it by other applications become visible.

Therefore Remote Buddy is neither the cause of the issue nor is it responsible for it. Instead, the cause of the issue exists independently of Remote Buddy. It's located elsewhere and can also only be solved there.

Although our products can't cause any such issues, we're regularly contacted about such issues and asked for help. In order to make locating and fixing the cause of such issues as easy and efficient as possible, we've developed a free diagnostics tool: Remote Control Diagnostics. It can locate issues with a single click and will provide you with information about the issue as well as with instructions on how you can fix it.

User

25.03.2008 09:52:02

Re: virtual keyboard toggle

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When the keyboard is active, the left, right, up, down and play
buttons are needed for controlling the virtual keyboard. Your mapping
for these buttons is overridden as long as the keyboard is active.

You can dismiss it with the Menu button.

Also, if you use a remote with more buttons than the Apple Remote, you
can set show and hide actions to other buttons than left, right, up,
down, play and they'll work just fine.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

User

25.03.2008 18:29:34

Re: virtual keyboard toggle

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Hi Felix,

Thanks for the reply. I realize now this is a limitation of using multiple instances of the apple remote to program my Harmony remote (a brilliant trick I learned about on this forum!).

So if I understand correctly, I should choose one of the Harmony remote buttons that is mapped to an apple remote "Menu" button as my "toggle virtual keyboard" button. That would avoid conflicts with the up/down/left/right and play responses?

User

26.03.2008 21:35:15

Re: Re: virtual keyboard toggle

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Yes and no ;-)

In fact, any menu button will always hide the keyboard when its active.

But mapping the toggle action to a menu button is certainly the right
thing - and a smart one, too:

1) at first menu button press, the action is executed and shows the
keyboard

2) at second menu button press, the press is handled by the virtual
keyboard itself. As its a menu button, it'll hide the virtual
keyboard. But as that's the same as the toggle keyboard action would
do on a button other than left, right, up, down, menu, you won't be
able to tell the difference.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

User

27.03.2008 20:51:45

Re: virtual keyboard toggle

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OK, I understand now. Thanks for clarifying.

I've submitted this info as a comment to jkm9000's blog page that describes the setup for Harmony remotes with multiple mac remotes.

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